Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).

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In raw totals, road accidents have been the top overall killer of workers--mainly truck drivers and traveling salespeople--since BLS started keeping the data in 1992.

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General Motors has worked with U.S. Customs on a pilot project that puts transponders in trucks to zap data about the shipment and driver to agents before the truck crosses the border.

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Looking at five years of fatal crashes involving large trucks, 0.10 percent or one in a thousand involved the truck's couplings, hitches or chains, according to an analysis of federal data from 2007-2011 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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Truck drivers heading from Hamburg to Barcelona serviced by Deutsche Telekom will automatically continue accessing their data through local providers as they drive across France and Spain.

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The data include readings from an on-board gyroscope to establish if the truck is moving in a straight line, turning or stationary and a tachometer, to cross-check the distance covered.

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